Word: mauldin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BILL MAULDIN...
They never shaved. They were so dirty that even the paper on which they appeared seemed to take on a grubby look. Yet the faces of Bill Mauldin's Willie and Joe were as admired and familiar to Americans during World War II as Dwight David Eisenhower's. Irreverent toward rank and cynical about the war-"Just gimme th' aspirin," Willie tells a medic. "I already got a Purple Heart"-Willie and Joe were more than cartoon characters. They were the American...
Drawing for Stars and Stripes, the Army's newspaper, Mauldin was telling it like it is long before that dreadful phrase was invented (see cut). Mauldin also became a kind of ombudsman for the G.I. in his war with officers and gentlemen. When the general who administered Naples, for example, started handing out four-day jail terms to war-weary troops for minor dress infractions, Mauldin-and Willie and Joe-were there with a cartoon. "Them buttons was shot off when I took this town, sir," a bedraggled Willie tells a well-scrubbed rear-echelon lieutenant. In Mauldin...
...also represent nearly every conceivable art form-painting in oil and watercolor, drawing, photography, sculpture, woodcut, collage, even needlepoint. The prominent contributors over the decades include Painters Pietro Annigoni, Boris Artzybasheff, Boris Chaliapin, Dong Kingman, Henry Koerner, Peter Max, Andy Warhol, Grant Wood and Andrew Wyeth; Cartoonists Herblock, Bill Mauldin, Patrick Oliphant, Charles Schulz and James Thurber; Sculptors Robert Berks and Marisol. Among the hosts of the Los Angeles exhibit will be Glessmann and Associate Publisher Ralph Davidson...